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Top 10 Blogs

Did we say 10? These are our favorite blogs, on technical topics and everything else. Don’t make us choose.

Direct Server Return (DSR)

15 years later, we still love DSR Andrew Howe

Some relationships fizzle out over time. You know how it goes - you change, you start fighting, you grow apart. But fifteen years on, Loadbalancer.org’s love affair with Layer 4 DR mode is

How to train your Web Application Firewall (WAF) Aaron West

One customer recently joked that, "Taming a dragon would be easier than configuring a WAF!". So we've developed some tools to make the whole process easier.

Reviews and Comparisons

Reviews and Comparisons

13 Aug 2018

Kemp Technologies vs Citrix NetScaler ADC — who cares about the price? Annu Sroa

F5 Networks is still clearly the leader in the application delivery market. But it's always worth considering other options, and the obvious alternative to F5 is Citrix. A blog comparing Citrix and F5 would be

News

21 Apr 2018

American customer service, German engineering and British values bring royal recognition for Loadbalancer.org Annu Sroa

Here at Loadbalancer.org, we'd like to say a big thank you to all of our customers, partners and staff. Coinciding with the opening of our new Californian support office in San Mateo; Loadbalancer.org has been awarded the prestigious Queen's Award for Enterprise 2018, International Trade.

15 Jan 2018

The 15 year story behind Loadbalancer.org.... Malcolm Turnbull

I was part of the generation that grew up without computers. We played Cowboys and Indians and dreamed of going into space, or flying planes. When I was about 11 my friends started getting Sinclair

17 Oct 2017

Load balancing vs link balancing — what exactly is the difference? Oliver Warren

I dream of a world where people stop calling a link balancer a load balancer - because we don't sell link balancers! And I'm sure that the team at Mushroom Networks have the same dream

How-To's

5 Oct 2017

Layer 4 Direct Routing (LVS-DR) and Layer 4 TUN (LVS-TUN) in AWS Aaron West

Have you ever wondered if LVS works in AWS? I can already say for certain that LVS-NAT works great - but what about LVS-DR and LVS-TUN? Having spent the last several months playing in AWS,

How-To's

18 Aug 2017

How to load balance Microsoft FTP Server with HAProxy Andrei Grigoras

Open standards are awesome, and the File Transfer Protocol FTP (inspite of its flaws) has been in constant use for an amazing 40 years! FTP can be a pain to run over firewalls and load balancers, so this blog explains how to configure Microsoft FTP and HAProxy.

HAProxy

15 Aug 2017

Client Certificate Authentication with HAProxy Aaron West

Using client certificates for security is a pretty cool idea! You can protect an entire application or even just a specific Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) to only those that provide a valid client certificate.

How-To's

5 Jul 2017

How to stop web form spam — use a simple honey pot trap in ModSecurity... Aaron West

How frustrating do you find it when hackers or robots fill in your website forms with "Buy Viagra Now!" type spam?

Reviews and Comparisons

Reviews and Comparisons

26 Jun 2017

Kemp Technologies vs F5 — a refreshingly honest load balancer comparison Richard Halcrow

If you are trying to decide which load balancer product is right for your business, you’ve probably already discovered that it’s a market of two extremes. There are load balancers with very low

Web Filters / Proxy

Web Filters / Proxy

14 Jun 2017

Transparent vs Explicit proxy — which method should I use? Neil Hosking

Different vendors have widely different opinions on which method should be used to deploy web filters or SWGs (secure web gateways). Historically, vendors struggled to implement authentication in Transparent mode, and maybe they remember some

25 May 2017

Lost sale lessons James Loveday

We lost a sale. It happens and it is always difficult to swallow, especially when the reason is seemingly trivial. Were we technically inferior? No. Were we more expensive? Nope. Was our support lacking? Far

Web Filters / Proxy

Web Filters / Proxy

20 Apr 2017

What exactly is a Reverse Proxy? Aaron West

"I don't think we can use your load balancer, because it's not a reverse proxy..." said the slightly confused reseller. Which got me thinking, maybe I should write a blog about the difference

Reviews and Comparisons

Reviews and Comparisons

7 Jul 2016

Does your F5 migration need a Jenga consultant? Aaron West

Look, let’s make this very clear, we love F5, we think they are awesome, the best ADC in the market. But please don’t be surprised when we charge you a fairly large amount

Reviews and Comparisons

17 Sep 2015

How should you compare load balancers? Malcolm Turnbull

If you are searching on Google for load balancer comparisons, as I just did, you will come across some blatant sales pitches from various vendors. They use dubious figures to prove that they are better

Reviews and Comparisons

19 Aug 2015

What are the best load balancing methods and algorithms? Malcolm Turnbull

This kind of question was asked a lot more frequently ten years ago, usually followed by the second most common question: "Why do I need two load balancers?" In fact, we were asked

Security

17 Nov 2014

How do I get an A+ from Qualys SSL + FIPS compliance? Scott McKeown

Chasing that eternally moving target that is an A+ from Qualys’ SSL scanner? Well, you’ve found the correct Blog! I’ve been testing again whilst also looking at the effect of FIPS compatible ciphers.

29 Sep 2014

Loadbalancer.org product roadmap — new features, release notes and more (as always, a work in progress) Malcolm Turnbull

Understandably, we get quite a few requests for a product roadmap containing release notes and feature updates. We've had a chat about this internally and thought that it would be nice to have a permanent

X-Forwarded-For Header (XFF)

4 Feb 2011

IIS and X-Forwarded-For Header (XFF) Rob Cooper

Although it's not technically a standard, the X-Forwarded-For (XFF) header is incredibly useful if you have any kind of proxy in front of your web servers. What's the issue? When you load balance your website

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